The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-08-25

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crankiness Of mind.
The grand organ, which they
claim to be the largest in the world,
sounded q solemn dirge, and after
two hymns and a prayer, the Pres
Ideni, Angus Cannon, brother tC
Geo. II. Cannon, rose and called foI
Brother McMurrin to come to The
stsnd, and a slender youth about
q came forward aud in a shorl
speech informed US that he had
spent two years as missionary il
South Carolina. He RECALLED US
with the iliad of his woes-how h
had been prosecuted, accused, ma
ligned, arrested and imprisoned fnr
the gospels sake and for the test
mony OF the word. He told Of :
case which occurred only two weeks
ago when he attended q Methodist
meeting in Oconee county, South
Carolina Il so caught the name o.
the county, The pastor in charge
was named Wright. Said Virgin
proceeded in his public address tc
grossly misrepresent the doctrines
and practices Of the Mormons.
whereupon our young hero reques
ted to be allowed to make state
ment in explanation and defense o.
of his faith and church. The pas
tor ted, but his congregation
dissentea and rose up violently aDG
with curses loud and foul they
drew forth their knives "and stert-
ed for me but some of my friends
stepped in between them and me
which cooled, them off and saved
me from these EiethOdists." He de
camped Of course, but two days lat
er he was surprised by the appear
anca of the eheriff who arrested hin.
on the charge of committing an as
sauIt on the Methodist preache
Wright. Two days and three nights
be langnished in Jail. His bono
was fixed at $500 and some Of his
friends agreed to 60 on his bono
but they were refused. "Some zoe
people were in town where | was
arrested and they grew furious anc
/ it was with great difficulty that the
officers kept them off of me. II
some way the case was never tried.
They just released me on condition
that | would leave the country and
never be seen in it again, / re-
turned to the place where | had
formerly been !ahorihg and Goo
| made the wrath Of man to praise
him and at once baptized thirteer
persons into the church of Christ.
| Upon the close Of this heart
crushing recital 10y the young mar-
tyr, Bishop Horser F. Whitney
bishop and high dignitary in til,
church of Christ of Later Day
! Saints and chief actor in the Sail
Lake theatre. arose and tor over AZ
hour disconrsed or the blessing.
and horrors of persecution as expe
rienced by his people. Whitney il
sharp, sbrewd man, with more
brains than 5000 of his auditsr:
put together, and yet AS a minister
in the average evangelical charcl
he would be considered about me
liocre. His talens is OF Il peculiar
kind which adapts him for The spe-
cial work Of keeping the veil owe
the minds of these wretched Great
ureS by apt appeals to their preju
dice and iglorance and the gift 0
conveying to them ta2 solid con
victiOn that the wisdom of the uni.
verse will perish with him when h,
shall be summoned from this nun
dane sphere.
Two things I have never sect
among :be twelve or fifteen thou
sand Mormons into whose faces
have looked, and they are. an intel
lectual female face, or a beautiful
or even pretty woman. Now thati
a hard thing to say for any tow
but is true if | am any Judge
1t is the settled, studied, fixet
and eminently successful policy o
the Mormon church to keep thei
members in AFFECT poverty and il
norance. The most rigid surveil
ance is exercised over their labor
and the church gets about all ex-
cept scanty living. People cas-
sometimes wonder how q MAJ
+ could manage to support six or tel
or twenty wives. Why, friends
that is easily done. The NOR
wives, the easier is the matter o
support because the wives supper
themselves and the husband. HE
have been known to come here AM
take one wife, who by washing GU
and other kinds of manual labo
, would make a support while he di
nothing whatever. Finding it coul
be made profitable he would tax
another and the result of her labo
: was all profit. a third was take
and her gains saved. And one mai
was mentioned to me who had ia
, ken three wives and never worke
a day in his life and yet had accu
/. mulated handsome properly by til
labor of his wives.
| Utah'a population is 100000 an
over 10000 are Mormons. Tn
! lower end of Idaho is almost entire
ly Mormon. In south eastern Ne
| vsda they are very strong. The
have 5000 adherents in Arizons
, rhey are | 500 strong IN Wyoming
They. are found also in Colorado
Missouri and other states and ter
: r,tories. Salt Lake City claim
10000 population and $4,000 Q